This paper presents a challenge to public sector managers, policy-makers and interested academics. Drawing on the findings of previous international comparative studies of new public financial management (NPFM) reforms, it concludes that public services and their providers are caught in an...

By weaving together the fields of health economics, industrial organisation and industrial development, this book describes the benefits of promoting a country’s health industry as a way of stimulating its high-technology industrial capacity. The authors illustrate that the development of...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to present a critique of published research access and peer review, considering their impacts on accounting scholarship. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is based on literature and publishing document review, experiential reflections and argument....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the impact of social accounting at the micro level and examines the use of social reporting for constructive purposes through internal communication devices. It explores the discourse adopted by a large organisation in social accounting and...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to provide a thought-provoking, attention-directing diegesis about the quality of the experience for those working as academic accounting scholars. Design/methodology/approach –Using storytelling by the authors as narrators and a literature review, this...

<title>Abstract</title> This article presents the findings of a project investigating the intended and unintended consequences of the contemporary performance-driven environment in the Australian higher education sector (AHES) focusing on the performance mechanisms used and the performance information...